Hacker News: sintax

New comment by sintax in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

sintax — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:43:15 +0000

Counter point: emacs :)

New comment by sintax in "Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty"

sintax — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:53:14 +0000

No real preference actually, just not a fan of lisp. (Too (many (god (damn (brackets))))). I just find it visually very fatiguing to read.

New comment by sintax in "Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty"

sintax — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:42:19 +0000

Interesting.. although if I ever switch, it'd be to an emacs spawn that didn't use lisp as language.

New comment by sintax in "Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty"

sintax — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:52:58 +0000

Surprised we haven't seen an LLM-rewrite to rewrite of emacs yet!

New comment by sintax in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

sintax — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:56:07 +0000

Used to use moonlight/sunshine to stream to my steamdeck hooked to my TV, but switched over to just using a long HDMI cable and a wireless controller. Have everything hooked up with Home Assistant, so when I start the PC in a specific automation, it will automatically switch output to the TV and start steam in big picture (steamdeck) mode. Works fairly well. Using a normal distro (Fedora), so no dual boot shenanigans. If something goes wrong, either get out of the couch (duh!) or remote with moonlight :-)

New comment by sintax in "GCC 16 has been released"

sintax — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:12 +0000

Did you file any bug reports for them?

New comment by sintax in "GCC 16 has been released"

sintax — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:45:05 +0000

Let me wikipedia that for you :-) Like people mentioned already, gcc predates LLVM by quite some years, ie. Wikipedia mentions March 22, 1987 for gcc, while LLVM's initial release was 2003.

A big difference between the 2 is also the license. GCC uses the GPL while LLVM uses Apache License, hence the projects don't share code.

New comment by sintax in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

sintax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:44:54 +0000

https://www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7#why-uuidv7 has some details: " UUID versions that are not time ordered, such as UUIDv4 (described in Section 5.4), have poor database-index locality. This means that new values created in succession are not close to each other in the index; thus, they require inserts to be performed at random locations. The resulting negative performance effects on the common structures used for this (B-tree and its variants) can be dramatic. ".

Also mentioned on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323008

New comment by sintax in "Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering"

sintax — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:29:48 +0000

or Binary Ninja's WARP : https://docs.binary.ninja/guide/warp.html // https://github.com/vector35/warp

New comment by sintax in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

sintax — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:44:04 +0000

Out of curiosity googled for Sentinel (which was one of the other dongles back then), seems somebody is now providing a bypass/emulation service: https://sentineldongle.com/ (not affiliated with this, just googled Sentinel like 5 minutes ago and this showed up).

New comment by sintax in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

sintax — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:02:54 +0000

Well if you think about it, in this case the license is the 30% cut on every game you purchase on steam.

New comment by sintax in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

sintax — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:29:42 +0000

How long until the AppleTV will look like your own in-home billboard? At least on the NVIDIA Shield you could just not install the update that changed the homescreen to incorporate ads (or install an alternative launcher). With the closed eco system of the AppleTV, the options are probably limited if/when Apple decides they need to extract more money from you by blastering ads all over the interface.

New comment by sintax in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

sintax — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:01:30 +0000

What do you expect? This is the same company suggesting people to turn off DNS Rebind protection to work around their incompetence (https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/dns-rebind-protectio...)

New comment by sintax in "FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices"

sintax — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:39:23 +0000

Denuvo anti-tamper DRM doesn't use kernel level tricks, it's all userspace and works just fine on Linux/Proton. It's the kernel level anti-cheats that don't work on Linux. And some user level anti cheats (like AntiCheat Expert) that only work on the Steam Deck as they check the CPU/GPU of the system and refuse to work if it's not the one in the Steam Deck (which also means those don't work on platforms like the ROG Ally).

New comment by sintax in "Blender 5.0"

sintax — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:18:18 +0000

New comment by sintax in "Show HN: Write Node.js code in Rust to achieve massive HTTP throughput"

sintax — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:44:47 +0000

github repo with only pre-compiled binaries coming from npmjs. These days anything from npmjs should already raise red flags, let alone something pre-compiled without sources.

New comment by sintax in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

sintax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:44:07 +0000

Now imagine all that video/audio footage being used/sold for AI training data.

New comment by sintax in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

sintax — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:21:59 +0000

I'll bet apple fan boys will agree to this statement for Valve or any other company, but when it comes to apple having to open up their walled garden in EU and then using every dirty trick in the book to make it impossible, oh boy...

New comment by sintax in "Bat v0.26.0"

sintax — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:43:42 +0000

"A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command" -- https://github.com/tavianator/bfs

New comment by sintax in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

sintax — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:11:08 +0000

> It will never be fast enough to work in real time ...

640Kb surely is enough!